A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
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(quote-book)
Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
(RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)
“I don’t mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,(nb..), the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,(nb..), the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"